Marine reptiles from the Triassic of the Tre Venezie Area, Northeastern Italy

Title Variants

Alternative: Triassic marine reptiles from Italy

Related Titles

Series: Fieldiana, Geology, new ser., no. 44

Series: Publication (Field Museum of Natural History), 1511

By

Rieppel, Olivier

Dalla Vecchia, Fabio Marco. , joint author

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Chicago, Ill, Field Museum of Natural History, 2001

Notes

"Accepted March 15, 1999. Published January 31, 2001."

Ichthyosaurian and sauropterygian remains are described from Triassic deposits in the Tre Venezie area of northeastern Italy. The taxa recorded include Mixosaurus, Cymbospondylus, ?Shastasaurus, Placodus, ?Cyamodus, an as yet unnamed cyamodontoid placodont, Nothosaurus sp., and Nothosaurus cf. N. giganteus. The temporal distribution of these fossils ranges from the earliest Anisian to the middle Carnian. Placodus (from the lower upper Anisian Calcare di Recoaro Formation of Vallarsa and Recoaro) is recorded for the first time (on the basis of diagnostic material) from the Alpine facies of the Middle Triassic. Collectively, the sauropterygian fauna from the Tre Venezie area resembles that of the eastern Alpine Triassic more closely than that of the southwestern Alps. This may indicate two separate colonization events of the Alpine Triassic as intraplatform basins developed along the northwestern Tethyan margin.

Fieldiana series has been published as Geological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Geology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-).

Subjects

Italy, Northern , Paleontology , Sauropterygia , Triassic

Call Number

QE1 .F4 n.s., no. 44

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.5305
NAL: 500 C432G new ser. no. 44
OCLC: 46894832
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51502212